o/t would you believe?

while replacing a piece of sidewalk in rutgers university here in nj, a college kid walked past three orange cones,past some tools ,and walked right through the slab of concrete while we were busy pouring another piece ? I diidnt have time to take a picture,you guys might have liked to see it!

must of had his mind on some girl, couldn t have been his studies

as jerry clower said years ago,"appears that boy has been educated beyond his intelligence" LOL

We once had a college student on a ten speed bike slip between our barricades at high speed onto some freshly poured and still being finished sidewalk. That wet concrete grabbed his front wheel and stopped it dead. He went over the handlebars and plowed chin-first through the wet concrete. He floundered around like a fish outa water. I thought the finishers were gonna kill him, but when he was finally able to get up, we all felt sorry for him - he had it in his hair, mouth, ears, eyes, pockets, books - everywhere. He was apologizing as fast as he could talk. Knocked his glasses off, ruined his books - we hosed him off, books and all and he went on his bedraggled way. He was a good kid - just didn't dawn on him what those guys were doing on their knees on each side of that sidewalk.

Must be related to Jimmy Hoffa! LOL

Vito

I was told you place concrete...not pour it...

Yeah, I believe it! Larry, not to be selling anyone short, but some of those students have never been introduced to the real world of the working man.

I work as the supervisor of all the parking guys at the University of Wyoming and this week is finals week, absolutely amazing how everyone forgets the parking rules especially the cars that park in spaces CLEARLY marked for motorcycles....

It's in place after you pour it.

Had a security guard do that with a freshly painted floor.had it caution taped off,he moved the tape and walked on it. I was ------.!!!

Working in a school one summer.. Contractors were sanding/refinishing the gym floor. All main doors were chained. Caught cheerleaders pracitcing on wet floor. Asked what they were doing on fresh/damp finish, and how they got in.. Said they wondered why floor was sicky, and they got in thru the boys locker room... Said all other doors were locked. NO DUH!!

A few years ago, I was riding on a bus, in the city, with a window seat on the right side. At one point, the bus slowed down, getting ready to stop because a nicely dressed young lady in heels wanted to get off. Glancing out the window, I could see a couple of construction workers curbside, appearing to be cleaning up after working on the sidewalk right there alongside where the bus was preparing to stop. Well, the bus stopped, the door opened, the lady went down the steps, and she stepped right into freshly-poured wet concrete! She went in like it was quicksand. She tried to step out of the just-poured slab, but her fancy spike heels were sucked down in there somewhere. Before I knew, she got out and was standing barefoot on the grass on the other side of the wet slab, with wet concrete up above her bare feet and ankles. The construction workers were yelling at her and giving her a load of profanity because they had just smoothed their slab and were getting ready to go home, and she was yelling at the bus driver right through the open door. The bus driver just pulled away and headed toward his next stop. It was one of the funniest things I ever saw in my life. Where's the video camera when you need it?

In a hundred years, when some other construction men are tearing that sidewalk (old by then), they might find the lady's shoes. I don't know if she got them out or not.

About three years ago state doing upgrade on In. 37 at I465. Had new concrete poured in new section of road. A car drove off the old into the new. All four wheels. When I passed driver was sitting in car waiting for a roll back.

Not human, but a sow went through some fresh poured concrete we had just finished. It was at a neighbor's place. I saw the sow get out on the other side of the pasture and everyone else was busy so I went over there to chase her back in. The old bat brushed me aside and headed straight across the yard and right across the fresh crete, 100 yards or so away. This farmer was pretty religious so there wasn't any cussing but the guys had a pretty strong way of letting me know I should have tried harder to head her off. I'm well experienced at handling hogs but when a 450 pound sow wants to go somewhere a mere human won't stop her. Jim

I was a cement mason for about 20 years when I was a much younger man. Had an older fella walk right into our fresh poured main walk. I looked up at him in wonderment, and He starts yelling at me because He was uo to the top of His shoes in concrete.
The guy I was working for told Him how smart He thought He was....

After pouring one of two entrances to a popular BBQ joint, we knocked off for lunch, but forgot to pull the barricades back close together. A young lady slipped between the barricades and mired up in the fresh concrete. We tried to push her out, but couldn't do it, and had to end up calling a wrecker. As we waited for the wrecker, she was worried about what would happen to her car, and to make light of the situation, I told her that we'd just torch her wheels off and leave them imbedded in the concrete. She started crying, and we couldn't do or say anything to make her stop. We finally got her towed out and gone, but every day afterward she'd drive by and holler and wave at us, and we'd wave her on down the road, like we were afraid she'd do it again. Seems like you meet the nicest people in the awfullest circumstances.

i had a customer bring in a car that had driven into cement . What a job air hammerin gthat stuff out . Insurance co totaled it . We got it up and running again though

Back in the good old days, when everyone was working and unemployment was nearly zilch, we were pouring interstate highway pavement, 24' wide and usually about a mile per day. They used a paving train of CMI machines, slip form construction, with dry unagitated concrete hauled in regular dump trucks from a nearby portable batch plant. It wouldn't be unusual to have 40 dump trucks each day supplying the mix. They'd dump onto a belt placer that ran in front of the main CMI paver. The reinforcing was continuous 1/2" bars, 40' long, hand spliced, and spaced about 4" apart across the 24' width. The rebars ran through tubes in front of the main paver - the tubes raised the bars up off of the subgrade. They had a spinning tube strikoff machine, a machine to put a vertical piece of plastic in the center, a bridge machine to allow the finishers to manually check the surface with a 10' straightedge, automated broom machine, burlap drag machine, tine machine, and finally a rig that sprayed curing compound on the finished product. All of these machines spanning the 24' pavement width, and all self propelled. (The bridge machine was pushed by hand) Probably 70 men working each day, including the truck drivers. I'm telling all this to give an idea of the investment in a day of paving a mile of interstate. At the end of the day, you'd have a mile of concrete behind you that ranged from set up (hard, but not ready to drive on) to just sprayed (still plastic). One evening the contractor's safety man drove around the barricades and onto the day's pour, continuing until he mired up and could go no farther. You might say that he was the goat for the day. . .

Your lucky it was just one.People are like sheep.Over 35 years in the craft I've seen it walked thru, driven thru,bicycles you name it.Had a car come behind the cones once go over a rock pile and hit a track hoe.Signs arrow boards all in place.Even had a flag man.Called the police and the driver of the car wanted the operator arrested for parking on the road.The general public are oblivious to any hazards.I bet the person who did this was either messing with a cell phone or i Pod.These are our future leaders.

Was he trying to be a smart A,
wasting his time at college. A dog does that, was there any resemblance.?

Was pouring a driveway one time and the homeowner lady was in the garage talking away at us. I said something and she took about 3 steps out into the fresh concrete before she got stopped. We all had a good laugh about that one. One other time we were also pouring a driveway and the neighbor lady opened the front door and her big dog made a beeline right through our freshly floated cement. I was yelling and cussing the dog out and she come over and got the dog and turned around without even saying a word. Really ticked me off that time. I was more mad at her than the dog by then.

I've been thru the Rutgers neighborhood. He was probably just not watching where he was going, too busy looking around for gangbangers with knives and guns. There's a reason the Ben Franklin bridge lets you into Camden for free, but charges you $4 to get out.

We had a contractor doing a road program for us several years ago. One of the drivers took a fully loaded (10yds) truck and drove 250ft down a recently poured section of road, getting lower as he went until he got stuck. Needless to say, the Redi Mix Co. didn"t make any money that day.